Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Owning, and carrying this brass knuckles, often has legal ramifications. However, "brass knuckles" have finger dividers; stirrup tekko do not. Although many kobudo practitioners claim that brass knuckles evolved from the tekko, brass knuckles more closely resembles the handle of the Western "trench knife".
As of 2013, the knife can be purchased with a stainless steel or carbon steel blade. [2] The Mercator's construction is similar to that of the later appeared French Douk-Douk knife, in terms of the simple folded-metal handle. However, the Douk-Douk is a slipjoint knife, whereas the K55K is a lockback knife and has a different blade geometry.
Brass knuckles carried by Abraham Lincoln's bodyguards during his train ride through Baltimore. Ford's Theatre National Historic Site, 2007 An Apache revolver, a weapon that combines brass knuckles with a firearm and a dagger – Curtius Museum, Liège, 2011 Mark I brass knuckles trench knife Homemade brass knuckles used in a lumber camp in Pine County, Minnesota.
Ka-Bar (/ ˈ k eɪ. b ɑːr /; trademarked as KA-BAR) is the contemporary popular name for the combat knife first adopted by the United States Marine Corps in November 1942 as the 1219C2 combat knife (later designated the USMC Mark 2 combat knife or Knife, Fighting Utility), and subsequently adopted by the United States Navy as the U.S. Navy utility knife, Mark 2.
Brass knuckles, knuckle dusters (European) Cestus, bladed cestus, caestus, myrmex, sfere (Mediterranean) Deer Horn Knives (Chinese) Emeici (Chinese) Finger knife [1] (African) Gauntlet (European) Indian parrying weapon [1] Japanese fan, iron fan; Katar, suwaiya (कटार) (Indian) Korean fan, mubuchae (무부채), tempered birch fan
A collection of pocketknives A Swiss Army knife made by Victorinox. A pocketknife is a knife with one or more blades that fold into the handle. They are also known as jackknives, folding knives, EDC knife, or may be referred to as a penknife, though a penknife may also be a specific kind of pocketknife.
Marine Raiders insignia. At the start of World War II, the Mark I Trench Knife was the only knife issued to Marines. It was introduced during World War I for trench warfare, but its "knuckle duster" hilt was cumbersome and contained nearly 1 pound (0.45 kg) of brass, making the knife expensive to produce.
A push dagger (alternately known as a punch dagger, punch knife, push knife or, less often, a push dirk) is a short-bladed dagger with a "T" handle designed to be grasped and held in a closed-fist hand so that the blade protrudes from the front of the fist, either between the index and middle fingers or between the two central fingers, when the grip and blade are symmetrical.